mr. dixon's line of questioning. you mentioned in your testimony, ms. cole, that usip was called upon to play this kind of coordinating role in the absence of anybody else doing it and you've gathered at least some of the relevant parties to try to work out issues and that's commendable. i want to ask what you in particular if anybody else has any comments on this one of the things we want to do this commission is to reach out to the relevant actors, relevant parties in the enterprise with regard to your views on the recommendations we've already made and we are out with another report a couple of months ago and one of the recommendations we made goes to this issue for the need for there to be more toward nation in the field and in washington and among the recommendations is establishment and dual headed official one person dead will have it who has an omb function to insure all of the relevant resources are provided in the contingency context of which obviously the development is a big part and that person would play a role at the national security cou

mr. dixon what can people learn in this book?> i think this is a way of looking at the city in terms of a real city of in terms of a federal enclave. we took about bartenders and prostitutes, we talk about body snatchers, we talk about the real city, we talk about music and swamps, and we have been working on this idea for over 20 years now, and what we realized is this city is a vibrant place,

mr. dixon, fellow commissioners have invited you to participate and we thank you. >> thank you, sir, and good morning to all. i share a high regard for the work that you and your personnel to around the world and mindful this morning as we meet here that one of the mandates for this commission is to focus on waste, fraud and abuse, and in preparing for this, mr. bowers, i read some of your statement for the record and i'd like to bring up when a sample you cite but then i would like you to respond and the other witnesses respond as well. in the six able you are referring to southern afghanistan in 2008 where usaid awarded the global development alliance awarded a $2.1 million grant for agricultural development and then subsequently the u.s. government awarded a 300 million-dollar grant to another organization for agricultural development in the same area. and in that case it ultimately led to the payment of the farmers to work in their own fields. so in that sense, the u.s. government was compe

mr. dixonarticipate, and he's still invited to participate. so he will, i'll go second to last, he will go last, and we're going to start with dov zakheim, commissioner zakheim. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i also want to thank you all for coming here and thank you for meeting with us in kabul as well. it was really very useful, and it's the reason you're all here. ms. richards, nice to see you again. and, mr. mcgarry, i was chatting with my friend the other night, cardinal mccare rick, who as you know is in charge of crf. told him how helpful you'd been in kabul and what a pleasure it is to have you. this group, in many ways, is not usual for all ngos. when mr. karzai talked about getting rid of, i think, it's 300 corrupt ngos, he didn't have you in mind. so there are ngos, and there are ngos, and that's one of the things we do need to highlight and think about how you guys do it right and what we do about those others. because that has not been mentioned at all. but i have a couple o

all were hostile to mr. dixon. -- to richard nixon. >> foot surge, watch, share every program from 1987 through today. this is washington your way. coming up next, a discussion about states' rights versus federal authority. this is from the annual conference on world affairs at the university of colorado at boulder. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> let me say a little bit about our remarkable panel. i will introduce them very briefly in the interests of time but i urge you to consult your program for more about their accomplishments. the members of the panel are terrence mcnally, an actor, producer, filmmaker, and general all-around artistic genius. narrative allowing people to tell their stories in ways that reveal their truths and their foibles. my favorite fact about terrence mcnally, he directed the wonderful film first girls are easy. next to me, robert kaufman a distinguished scholar now at the heritage foundation and pepperdine universi ose many books have considered such subjects as on control and

mr. dixon has been incredibly helpful to us this whole time. we appreciate his work as well.ust want to say, for the record, that we look at waste, fraud, and to be used in many forms. we can see if the project is wasteful. we see a lot of waste. we see poor planning and oversight by the u.s. government as well as poor performance in the park -- on the part of contractors. we have had time and money misspent. finally, we see criminal behavior and blatant corruption. that is to be addressed as well. what is disconcerting about your statement is you tended to focus on the hardware. services are half of the contract. we know that the hardware is easy to identify and illustrate in terms of savings, but we are going to focus on the service part of your work, which i know you spent a good amount of time focusing on as well. with that, we'll start off with questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i did just come back from two weeks in afghanistan. the dust of efficiency initiative to ensure -- the dust of kandahar has not been shaken off my shoes. you talked about the dogs. you can dr